Court date set for Qld twins' deaths

The trial of a couple accused of murdering their twin toddlers by starving them will begin in July.

The mother and her partner were arrested in 2008 after their then 11-year-old daughter found the decomposing bodies of her 18-month-old brother and sister in cots at their rented home at Sunnybank Hills, in Brisbane's south.

They had been dead for about a week.

Both parents are charged with two counts each of murder and of failing to provide the necessities of life to the toddlers.

During a brief review of the matter in the Supreme Court in Brisbane on Wednesday, prosecutor Michael Byrne SC said the trial would probably run for two weeks from July 24.